White Nights Quotes

“The winters were so bleak and black that in the summer folk were overtaken with a kind of frenzy, constant activity. There was the feeling that you had to make the most of it, be outside, enjoy it before the dark days came again. Here in Shetland they called it the 'simmer dim'.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“oatcake and handed it to her. ‘Does Perez ever talk”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“In this light, at this time of the year, on impulse visitors bought up the old houses for second homes.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“Perez thought how Dawn had been when he’d first met her. A strong and confident woman. This is what violence does, he thought. It makes victims of us all.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“He watched men like David Attenborough watched animals.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“Perez might irritate the shit out of him, but he was the best judge of character Taylor knew. He watched men like David Attenborough watched animals.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“thirty”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“official forms and some scales for weighing parcels. A young man stood behind the food counter. Perez recognized Martin Williamson, the chef who’d prepared the food for the exhibition the night before. Williamson’s father had run a hotel in Scalloway until he’d drunk all the profits and the family had sold up and moved into Lerwick. The father had died soon after. He’d fallen into the water at the ferry terminal, full of drink. Rumour had it that he’d jumped, but nobody had seen him fall, so how could they know? Yet Martin had a reputation for good humour. Even at the old man’s funeral, he’d been heard cracking a joke with one of his friends. There were people who’d disapproved of that; others thought he was putting”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“As always after a trip home, he wondered why he found it so difficult to get on with his father. There were never arguments, no real antagonism, but he always left feeling an edgy mixture of guilt and inadequacy.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“Sometimes he asked Sandy questions, not expecting much of an answer, but because he wanted to make him think, hoping that it might become a habit.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“disappearance. He lived alone. She had an idea that he might have been married once, but he didn’t talk about children. He lived in Denby”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“She was making a shawl for the child. The knitting was so intricate that it looked like one of the wedding veils worn in his grandparents’ day. Then, the women had said the yarn should be so fine that you should be able to pull the veil through a wedding ring.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“Every relationship for him was a sort of competition and he liked winning, even here when it was part of the job to be cooperative.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights

“Taylor leidis, et tema jaoks tähendab lõbusõit kruiisilaeval maapealset põrgut. Jääda laevale lõksu, keset merd koos sadade inimestega, keda sa pole endale kaaslaseks valinud ja kelle vastu sa pead olema viisakas, ilma et oleks võimalik jalga lasta. Perekonnaga on ju tegelikult sama lugu, mõtiskles ta.”
― Ann Cleeves, White Nights